I am a RN at our hospital's Wellness Center and I supervise the chronic
illness exercise program as well as doing a lot of education with the
participants.

I am having difficulty finding resource information on the "Honeymoon
Phase" that can occur with individuals with diabetes, specifically Type 2.
Could you please share any information with me? (I have numerous books from
the ADA which have little or no information on this topic.) I am looking
for information that is understandable to the lay-person that I may use as a
handout.

[Editor's comment: Type 2 diabetes has a different sort of situation,
somewhat similar to the honeymoon:
obese Type 2 patients may go into a prolonged remission if they can lose weight. There's really no
well-defined term for this situation; sometime it's called "diet-controlled
Type 2 diabetes," but it might be loosely called a honeymoon by some
people. During this remission of Type 2 diabetes, like the Type 1 patient's
honeymoon, it may be impossible to detect any high blood sugars, but the
disease is still there: it'll come back under the stress of illness, or if
the person regains their weight and becomes obese again. The mechanism of
this remission is said to be related to resensitization of the body's
insulin receptors, rather than what's discussed above for Type 1 diabetes,
but superficially, either group of patients looks the same: prior diagnosis
of diabetes, sticking with a meal plan, and little or no medication needed
after having used it before. And in either case, the remission is temporary.
WWQ]

Original posting 28 Mar 97

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